However, all other bodies and agencies, except for the European Agency for Reconstruction, have their own emblem, albeit often inspired by the flag's design and colours.

Congress refused on the pretext that many people were involved in the flag's design, and that Hopkinson was already paid as a public servant.

Diagram of the flag's design

The actual design of the Lone Star Flag remained a mystery until the Texas House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1123 in 1997 commemorating Montgomery County as the flag's official birthplace.

The flag's design and symbolism are derived from the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The flag's design was statuted in 1955, which gave a clear way to define and create the flag.

One theory on the flag's design holds that since Lebanese member of parliament Henri Pharaon, who was involved in the making of the flag, was a long-time consul in Vienna and was an avid friend and founder of the " Austro-Lebanese Association of Friendship ", the colors could have been inspired by the Austrian flag.

The story that the flag's design was solely that of Slevin continues, however.

The flag's design is based on the First National Flag of the Confederate States of America, which is nicknamed the " Stars and Bars ".

The origins of the flag's design date from the First Zionist Congress in 1897 ; the flag has subsequently been known as the " flag of Zion ".

* In Season 1 of Mr. Show, Button Gwinnett was played by Jack Plotnick in a skit surrounding the origin of the American flag's design.

The actual design of the Lone Star Flag remained a mystery until the Texas House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1123 in 1997 commemorating Montgomery County as the flag's official birthplace.

By 1938, the flag had basically assumed its present form, except the sword had a different design ( with a more curved blade ) and it, along with the shahada above, took up more of the flag's space.

The flag's design is derived from the standard of Emir Abdel Kadir in the 19th century which consisted of two equal vertical bands, green and white, as well as being inspired from the flag of the Algerian Regency from the 16th to the 19th century, which consisted of a white crescent and star on a red background ( the same as the modern flag of Turkey ; the Algerian Regency was an autonomous vassal of the Ottoman Empire ).

The National Assembly of Bhutan codified a code of conduct in 1972 to formalize the flag's design establish protocol regarding acceptable flag sizes and conditions for flying the flag.

The flag's design is heavily influenced by the flag of Ghana.

The flag's design influenced that of the flag of Guinea-Bissau ( 1973 ).

On November 30, 1955, the flag's design was modified slightly to make the star smaller and its edges straighter.

The flag's very simple design belies the depth of meaning attributed to it.

On 31 May 1822, Torre Tagle changed the flag's design again.

In late 2008, Tribune Broadcasting station WTTV in Indianapolis began to use the flag's design as part of their station's logo.

The flag's basic design uses the Seal of Utah which was adopted by the state legislature on April 3, 1896.

" The flag's design was later adopted as the official flag of the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

The flag's design was specified in the June 14, 1777, Flag Resolution of the Second Continental Congress, and flew for the first time on September 3, 1777 — well after Washington's crossing in 1776.

The flag's symbolism is described in the state song, " Alaska's Flag ".

The ratio of the flag's width to length is 3: 5.

The official proportion of the flag is 3: 4, the coat of arms ' width being 3 / 8 of the flag's length.

While the arms are horizontally centered, their vertical position on the flag is defined by the location of the center of the cross on top of the crown: at 1 / 8 of the flag's length.

In this case, the coat of arms ' width is 1 / 3 of the flag's length, and the center of the cross on the top of the crown will be at 1 / 6 of the flag's height below the upper edge.

The North Korean flag's prominent red star is a universal symbol of communism, although since the flag's adoption, the philosophy of Juche has replaced Marxism-Leninism as the state's guiding ideology, and references to Communism have been systematically removed from the country's constitution and legal documents.

The flag's official ratio is 2: 3 ( width to length ), but the flag is very often seen as a 1: 2 variant to match the flag of Canada in size when flying together.

The flag's Latin inscription, " Libertas quæ sera tamen ", is the motto of the " Inconfidencia Mineira ," which fought for Brazilian independence from Portugal.

The flag's length is twenty modules and the width, fourteen, translating into an aspect ratio of 10: 7.

The width of the border is 1 / 20 of the flag's proportions.

The flag's background is red in its upper half and green in its lower half.

The symbolism of the flag's colours is similar to that of the official provincial flag: red symbolizes the fires that once ravaged the prairies, green symbolizes agricultural cultivation and life, and gold symbolizes the wheat fields.

It is clear that the Government's asserted interest in protecting the " physical integrity " of a privately owned flag in order to preserve the flag's status as a symbol of the Nation and certain national ideals, is related to the suppression, and concerned with the content, of free expression.

This is further supported by the Act's explicit exemption for disposal of " worn or soiled " flags, which the Act protects from prosecution since disposing a worn or soiled flag does not desecrate the flag's symbolic nature.

There is no official specification or construction sheet for the exact relative measurements of the star and crescent, although the flag's measurements are 2: 3.

The star is surrounded on its left by a red crescent made by the intersection of two arcs, an outer arc whose diameter is equal to one-fourth of the length of the flag, and an internal arc with a diameter equal to one-fifth of the flag's length.

These are also considered war flags, though the terminology only applies to the flag's military usage.

The flag of the Netherlands Antilles was white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered ; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a pentagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up.

Various Pan-African organizations and movements also often employ the flag's colours for their activities.

The chairman of the subcomittee that chose the flag — after a competition for which 850 designs were submitted — has also explained the symbolism of the flag's colours:

The probably most frequently used symbol of the Yugoslavs to express their identity and to which they are most often associated with is the blue-white-red tricolor flag with a yellow-bordered red star in the flag's center, which also served as the national flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991.

Fall damage and recoil are also taken into account when Realistic Mode is enabled, and supply crates, dropped weapons, and grenades realistically tumble down steep hills ; another effect is the flag's realistic waving as a player runs with it.